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Vietnamese grandmaster to rival at Champions Chess Tour Finals

Top-ranked grandmaster Le Quang Liem is to participate in the final round of the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour Finals from November 14-20.
Vietnamese grandmaster to rival at Champions Chess Tour Finals ảnh 1Le Quang Liem (Source: thanhnien.vn)
Hanoi (VNA) – Top-ranked grandmasterLe Quang Liem is to participate in the final round of the Meltwater ChampionsChess Tour Finals from November 14-20.

The tournament is an all-play-all round robin,gathering eight elite stars, including newly-crowned Tour 2022Champion Magnus Carlsen and three-time US Champion WesleySo.

Liem is currently at the 20th place in globalranking. He is now ranked fourth in the overall Tour leaderboard, earning atotal prize money of 95,500 USD.

The Meltwater Champions Chess Tour is the world’s firstyear-long online chess series designed to determine the world’s best chessplayer over a full season of competitive online chess./.
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